Reviewing Characters, Setting, and Theme
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Marlene Rivera
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Reviewing Characters, Setting, and Theme
Literary Text Elements
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Poll
Which story that we have read have you liked the most so far?
"King Lear"
"William Tell"
"Robin Hood and The Mournful Knight"
"The Two Travelers"
"Baseball Lessons"
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Let's Review the Key Vocabulary
Drama - a play
Character - a person, animal, or made-up creature in a fictional story or play
Motivations - the reasons why characters act, think, and feel as they do in the story
Character Traits - special qualities of the characters, such as honesty or shyness
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Let's Review the Key Vocabulary
Setting - where or when a story happens
Events - important things that happen to the characters in a story
Problems - situations that characters go through that are hard for them
Solutions - how the characters figure out how to solve their problems
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Let's Review the Key Vocabulary
Theme - an important message or lesson about people or life
Infer - when you make a guess or statement based on the information you have in front of you
When you INFER something, you are making an INFERENCE!
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Poll
How do we analyze a character?
by their words
by their thoughts
by their actions
by their feelings
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How do we analyze character traits?
We pay attention to the actions, words, feelings, and thoughts of each of the characters in the story.
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Poll
How do we analyze a story's setting?
by looking for details of where the events in the story occur
by looking for details about the time the events happen
by writing a letter to the author and waiting for a reply
by looking at the pictures in the story
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How do we analyze a story's setting?
We pay attention to the details of where the events in the story are happening and when the events are happening.
Where - location
When - time of day (afternoon) or time in history (year)
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Multiple Choice
How do we analyze a story's theme?
We pay attention to what the characters are wearing.
We pay attention to how the setting looks.
We pay attention to when the author wrote the story.
We pay attention to the life lessons that the characters learn throughout the story.
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How do we analyze a story's theme?
We pay attention to the moral (good or bad) lessons that the character's learn about life.
Example:
In the story of the scorpion and the frog, the scorpion ends up hurting the frog even after he said he wouldn't.
The lesson in that story is that creatures rarely change their nature.
The frog should have known that the scorpion was dangerous even if he said he wasn't.
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Literary Text Elements
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